Improvement in corpse-preservers



H. KERSTEN.

Corpse Praservers.

No. 142,919. PatentedSeptemherI6,I873.

WI NESSES.

UNITED PATENT OFFICE.

HEINRY KERSTEN, onwHEEmxe, WEST VIRGINIA IMPROVEMENT IN CORPSE-PRESE-RVERS.

mwifiea-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,9 [9, dated September 16, 1873 application filed August 21,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRY' KERSTEN, of Wheeling, in the county of Ohio and in the State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corpse- Preservers; and do hereby-declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying-drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in.

suitable metal, and provided with a tight-fitting lid, B. The bottom 0 of this box is made concave on the under side, both crosswise and longitudinally, and at the front end the bottom'extends farther down than at the, rear end. In the front end of the box is made a semicircular depression or recess, as shown inv August, 1873.

figure, making the box at the sides extend beyond or in front of the main part or center of the box. v

' This peculiar shape of the box makes it lit the chin and neck of the corpse, and the chest downward'below the abdomen. On

each side of the box are perforated ears a a,

through which rods D D are passed, as shown in the d-rawing,-for the purpose of suspending the preserver upon the sides of the coflin, thus obviating the necessity of putting the corpse in another box to freeze it. ()n the side of the preserver are spouts b b, for the purpose of attaching suitable hose or pipes to carry oif the Water accumulatingjnthe box. Such pipe may pass out of the bottom of the coffin.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The box or corpse-preserver A, provided with lid B, cars a a, spoutsJb b, and concave bottom 0, said bottom and upper end of box being constructed as shown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that'I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my handthis 18th day of HEINRY KERSTEN. Witnesses:

CHARLES F. KLEvIEs,

B. KAMMER. 

